Right, Ted. We all believe you. I don’t think Eddie Long won’t be calling you as a character witness. AOL News:

Haggard: Atlanta Pastor Deserves Fair Hearing

While stressing that nothing had been proved against Long, whom he said he has met once or twice, Haggard said it’s important to remember that all Christians struggle with sin.

“It’s fundamental to all Christian beliefs that Christians are simultaneously saints and sinners,” he said. “We’re saints in the eyes of God, but we all know we’re sinners, which is why we value redemption.”

Haggard’s career was torpedoed in 2006 when a male prostitute named Mike Jones went public with claims that Haggard had paid him for sex and used methamphetamine with him.

Haggard denied ever having sex with Jones, but admitted he had used methamphetamine and said he had received a massage from Jones. “I didn’t do what I was accused of, but what I did do was bad enough,” he said today.

Like Haggard before the fall, Long is also a prominent figure in evangelical circles, and the allegations against him have sent shock waves through his 25,000-member megachurch in suburban Atlanta, where he has often railed against homosexuality.

The Blend’s Ted Haggard files, including:

* Haggard’s new ‘church’ to welcome homos, to promote ‘Heterosexual Monogamous Relationships’

* Ted Haggard’s now ‘a heterosexual with very few issues’

* Video: Signorile interviews Haas about Ted’s Boot Camp for strapping young men

* Gayle Haggard knows 99% of Ted’s sexual experiences were with her

* Mike Jones on new Haggard scandal: ‘I knew there were others’

* Haggard in doco: ‘At this stage in my life, I am a loser’